Rice Queen Meaning

(idiomatic, slang, LGBT) A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.

Example: 1984, Herbert Gold, Mister White Eyes: A Novel, Arbor House, ISBN 0877956367, page 204,
  These were nostalgic gray wolves in this place, or maybe they were the ones who spent the money and brought in the chickens. A rice queen with a Japanese boy (maybe Chinese).
1995, unnamed interview subject, quoted in Laurence Wai-Teng Leong and Gerard Sullivan, Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the Pacific: Social and Human Services, Haworth Press, ISBN 1560247525, page 101,
  If a man like myself in his 40s goes into a gay bar in Australia, no heads are going to turn. There are a few young Asian men and a lot of rice queens. In Thailand the position is reversed and the Caucasian man can choose.
2005, Regie Cabico, "gameboy", in Emanuel Xavier (Ed.), Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry, Suspect Thoughts Press, ISBN 0974638854, page 50,
  […] / i am not a teriyaki toy / / a rice queen's dream   a bowl of soy sauce to dip yr meat in / […]

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